Yoshinori Ohsumi
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Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering discoveries on the mechanisms of autophagy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yoshinori Ohsumi canonical | 6 |
| 大隅良典 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2390630 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yoshinori Ohsumi Context triple: [Keio Medical Science Prize, notableLaureate, Yoshinori Ohsumi]
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Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American biochemist and molecular biologist who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on DNA repair mechanisms.
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B.
Renato Dulbecco
Renato Dulbecco was an Italian virologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the interaction between viruses and the genetic material of cells, which advanced the understanding of cancer.
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C.
Jules Hoffmann
Jules Hoffmann is a Luxembourg-born French immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the innate immune system, particularly in insects.
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D.
Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa was a Spanish-American biochemist and molecular biologist who won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synthesis of RNA.
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E.
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner was a pioneering South African biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his foundational work in molecular biology and the use of C. elegans as a model organism.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yoshinori Ohsumi Target entity description: Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering discoveries on the mechanisms of autophagy.
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A.
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American biochemist and molecular biologist who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on DNA repair mechanisms.
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B.
Renato Dulbecco
Renato Dulbecco was an Italian virologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the interaction between viruses and the genetic material of cells, which advanced the understanding of cancer.
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C.
Jules Hoffmann
Jules Hoffmann is a Luxembourg-born French immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the innate immune system, particularly in insects.
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D.
Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa was a Spanish-American biochemist and molecular biologist who won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synthesis of RNA.
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E.
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner was a pioneering South African biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his foundational work in molecular biology and the use of C. elegans as a model organism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Yoshinori Ohsumi Description of subject: Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering discoveries on the mechanisms of autophagy.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.